David Levy said on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29#Salted_pages :
I'm surprised to learn that cascading semi-protection is possible, as this
enables anyone with a non-new account to semi-protect pages. That's a far worse
problem than the display of that message (which would require developer
intervention to change) and I don't believe that cascading semi-protection
should ever be applied for any reason. In my opinion, it should be formally
prohibited via the protection policy. —David Levy 18:34, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
In fact, the situation is far worse, since when semi-protection cascades it
becomes full (per Bug 8658). Thus, users can full-protect arbitrary pages by
editing a semi-protected page with cascade enabled.
The only reasonable solution I see is to disable cascade completely for
semi-protected pages.
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